[Board] Diversity/Inclusiveness

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi,

I thought this committee was already closed, as I haven't seen any activity
recently. Also, I can't find the list of members or how they are chosen.

If it is still working, I would include them, sure. But we have to make
sure we have a diverse team writing the guidelines. There are things that
if you haven't experience yourself, it is difficult to address. For
example, I have only experienced soft racism and I have no idea about
transexual experience. I wouldn't dare to write about that parts.



On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could this be a collaboration within the existing code of conduct
> committee? Rather than trip up volunteers we already have who have
> expressed passion towards supporting diversity?
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:51 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On yesterday's board meeting we talked (briefly) about the problem with
>> diversity and inclusiveness in OSGeo and FOSS4G. We intend to talk more
>> about this in Bonn:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-03-01#
>> Inclusiveness_guidelines_for_conferences
>>
>> The proposal that has been made for this  (thanks Jeff and others*) is:
>>
>>  * Create a working group for diversity inside OSGeo
>>  * Create guidelilnes for conferences
>>  * Review CoC
>>
>> Although I already expressed my fear of creating this working group
>> before next FOSS4G, as members of that group will be sensitively targeted
>> just by being part of it.
>>
>> I am still following OSM advancements on this and maybe we can take part
>> of their work for us:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity/MailingList/CodeOfConduct
>>
>> Some of the GeoChicas (the spanish women group in OSM) already expressed
>> their desire to work with us and help.
>>
>> I know that the part of reviewing the CoC may be sensitive too, but most
>> of the CoC written in the past decade are very open to ambiguities and do a
>> lot of cargo culting and focuses on effects, not on causes. I want to make
>> sure our CoC does not follow that and is really useful. If you compare it
>> with the CoC OSM is writing, you can see there are many differences. At
>> this point I am not sure what parts should be rewritten, that's why I want
>> a working group on that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> María.
>>
>> * not sure to what extent they want their names here
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> Jody Garnett
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